Our History
1989
January
His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III asked Dr. Mahfouz Awad, currently known as Fr. Rueiss Awad, to start a new church in the heart of Toronto. He asked him to build the largest possible Church, and to finish it from within gradually. Dr. Mahfouz proposed the name of “Saint George & Saint Rueiss” for the new church. Pope Shenouda agreed to this name at the Papal Residence in Anba Rueiss Abassya Cairo, on Thursday June 15, 1989.
August
The First Divine Liturgy for the church was on Sunday, August 20, 1989.
The first feast in the church was for St. Mary on August 22, 1989. His Holiness Pope Shenouda’s first visit to the church was in the building of Avenue Road on Wednesday August 30, 1989, and during his historical visit to North America in 1989.
His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III asked Dr. Mahfouz Awad, currently known as Fr. Rueiss Awad, to start a new church in the heart of Toronto. He asked him to build the largest possible Church, and to finish it from within gradually. Dr. Mahfouz proposed the name of “Saint George & Saint Rueiss” for the new church. Pope Shenouda agreed to this name at the Papal Residence in Anba Rueiss Abassya Cairo, on Thursday June 15, 1989.
1989
1989
His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III asked Dr. Mahfouz Awad, currently known as Fr. Rueiss Awad, to start a new church in the heart of Toronto. He asked him to build the largest possible Church, and to finish it from within gradually. Dr. Mahfouz proposed the name of “Saint George & Saint Rueiss” for the new church. Pope Shenouda agreed to this name at the Papal Residence in Anba Rueiss Abassya Cairo, on Thursday June 15, 1989.
His Holiness the late Pope Shenouda III asked Dr. Mahfouz Awad, currently known as Fr. Rueiss Awad, to start a new church in the heart of Toronto. He asked him to build the largest possible Church, and to finish it from within gradually. Dr. Mahfouz proposed the name of “Saint George & Saint Rueiss” for the new church. Pope Shenouda agreed to this name at the Papal Residence in Anba Rueiss Abassya Cairo, on Thursday June 15, 1989.